Lu Ya

Lu Ya is an ancient master of medicinal cores and the original owner of the Immortal Slaying Gourd. He is first known through the bald crane's recovered memories, in which the gourd hunts the crane for stealing cores. Much later he confronts Su Ming as the cold and ruthless cultivator once regarded as the strongest of the aeon, only to be trapped and erased inside Su's world of will.

Biography

South Morning and the Immortal conflict

When Su Ming forms a connection with a five-eyed gourd, the bald crane remembers Lu Ya commanding its inner sword-bearing child with the phrase “Treasured gourd, please kill it.” The crane had stolen and eaten Lu Ya's Dao Cores and watched him refine them, provoking a pursuit it remembers with terror. It also recalls that Tai Xing Su, one of the four Great True Progenitors, destroyed the original Immortal Slaying Gourd, making the later gourd's exact continuity uncertain. (Chapter 774)

Other accounts identify Lu Ya as the Fifth True World's sole True Progenitor appearance, a cultivator skilled enough with medicinal cores that he might heal a damaged soul. He was the Sublime Paragon of that True World and once chased the memory-damaged bald crane across the universe. These references establish his reputation long before his direct confrontation. (Chapters 809–1020)

Arid Triad and the dying aeon

Tian Xie Zi describes Lu Ya as the strongest person in the aeon before Su Ming, but also as sinister, cold, and utterly comfortable with killing. Su promises his master that Lu Ya will die. When they meet, Lu Ya tests that claim with ninety-nine killing eyes and a huge illusory gourd, swaps positions with the gourd to absorb Su's punch, and releases thousands of clones to threaten Ninth Summit. (Chapters 1350–1351)

The escape is illusory. Su's world of True Morning Dao will traps every clone behind a mirrorlike boundary, leaving them able to see Ninth Summit but unable to affect it. Repeatedly tearing space only returns Lu Ya to the same enclosed world. When Su collapses that world, Lu Ya reunites his clones and feeds life, soul, flesh, and blood into the gourd mark, producing a seven-colored gourd for his strongest counterattack. Su closes his eyes and erases the world, gourd light, and Lu Ya together. (Chapters 1351–1352)

Appearance and personality

Lu Ya has a resolute face, a dark and sinister gaze, and a gourd-shaped mark at the center of his brow. Activating its deepest power withers him into a skeletal, visibly older form. He is confident, cold-blooded, and strategically cruel: when direct escape fails, he threatens Su's disciples to force divided attention. Fear appears only when he finally understands that his apparent movement occurs entirely within Su's prison.

Abilities and cultivation

Lu Ya is a Sublime Paragon and Fifth True World's True Progenitor, formerly acclaimed as the aeon's strongest. He creates high-level Dao Cores, projects ninety-nine killing eyes, swaps places with a defensive gourd image, shatters manifested worlds with physical force, and divides into thousands of clones capable of tearing space. (Chapters 774, 1350–1351)

His gourd power is partly item-derived and life-funded. The brow mark boosts his aura, and the final seven-colored manifestation consumes his life, soul, flesh, and blood. The huge illusory gourd lasts only three breaths against Su's punch, the clones cannot recognize Su's nested world-prison, and even full self-sacrifice cannot resist erasure by a stronger world will.

Relationships

• Su Ming: Successor to the title of strongest in the aeon and the opponent who erases him.
• Tian Xie Zi: Dislikes Lu Ya's cold, sinister nature and prompts Su's promise to kill him.
• The bald crane: Former thief of Lu Ya's cores and repeated target of his pursuit; its memories preserve the gourd's command.
• Tai Xing Su: Great True Progenitor credited by the crane with destroying Lu Ya's original Immortal Slaying Gourd.

Items

Lu Ya is the original owner and master associated with the Immortal Slaying Gourd, whose five eyes release a palm-sized child carrying a tiny sword. His later brow mark produces a seven-colored gourd by consuming his own existence. Whether Su's earlier five-eyed gourd is the destroyed original restored, a related copy, or another continuity is not fully explained.